The International Convention Centre in Birmingham is one of the city’s most renowned venues.
People travel from across the world to attend events at the esteemed venue at the bottom of Broad Street in Centenary Square which regularly hosts the Conservative Party Conference.
But did you know that before it was built another landmark stood in its place, known as Bingley Hall - and it was destroyed by a huge fire in the 1980s.
Bingley Hall was built in 1850 when King Edward VII was on the throne and is believed to have inspired the construction of Crystal Palace.
It was the UK’s first purpose-built exhibition hall and was attached to Bingley House where a renowned banker Charles Lloyd lived.
The first event at Bingley Hall was the Birmingham Triennial Music Festival which attracted the likes of Charles Darwin.
Later events included Birmingham Dog Show, cattle shows, circuses and more music concerts.
Renowned politicians including former Prime Minister William Gladstone held meetings there along with former Birmingham Mayor Joseph Chamberlain.
Bingley Hall was hosting the Midlands Caravan, Camping and Leisure Exhibition in 1984 when it caught fire.
The blaze ripped through the main Queen's Hall of the exhibition centre, destroying large portions of the show which had only opened a day earlier.
As the exhibition hall closed after a group of psychics, who were attending an annual Psychics and Mystics Fayre, gathered to ‘cleanse’ the site to ensure its future as a convention centre.
After the hall was demolished ICC Birmingham was built, opening in 1991.
Here’s a look back at Bingley Hall on Broad Street:
1. Bingley Hall, Birmingham 1850
Exhibition of the Birmingham and Midland Counties Agricultural Association, in Bingley Hall, Birmingham, 1850. 'Among the pure breeds exhibited, the show of Herefords deserves to take the highest place. . Among the show of heavier stock in Broad-street was an extraordinary crossbred animal, of gigantic size, but in the framing of which nature seems to have accompanied the increased proportion with great awkwardness of build, and a wide departure from shapeliness. One of the crosses of sheep appeared to contain some admixture of foreign blood, as if an attempt had been made to increase the frame of the animal and its capacity for taking on flesh, at the same time that the square proportions of the native breeds were preserved. In pigs the show was a very large one, and there were some first-rate animals produced'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850. Artist Unknown. (Photo by The Print Collector/Heritage Images via Getty Images
2. Birmingham Hall in Birmingham in 1903
The British statesman, Joseph Chamberlain (1836 - 1914), delivers his speech on 'The Tarriff Question' in Bingley Hall, Birmingham on November 4, 1903. He uses two loaves of bread of varying size to illustrate the difference the tax would make on the loaf. A print from the Illustrated London News. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
3. Bingley Hall, Birmingham, 1909
Mary Leigh, Suffragette organiser in 1909. She is wearing her purple, white and green uniform as Drum Major of the Women's Band. A year earlier, she and a fellow schoolteacher friend, Edith New, became the first suffragette window-smashers. Mary served three prison sentences and was force-fed on many occasions. On 17 September 1909 she and eight other suffragettes caused pandemonium when they disrupted Prime Minister Asquith's visit to Birmingham to attend a Liberal meeting in the Bingley Hall. She and Charlotte Marsh (who often led WSPU processions on horseback, dressed as Joan of Arc) climbed onto the roof of a taller building next to the hall and hurled missiles and slates onto its roof. The two women were pelted with bricks and stones and soaked when fire hoses were turned on them. Eventually a policeman climbed on the roof and brought them down. Mary was sentenced to four months with hard labour in Winson Green Gaol, where she staged a hunger strike. After being force-fed by stomach tube, she barricaded herself into her cell to prevent the barbaric procedure from being carried out again. (Photo by Museum of London/Heritage Images/Getty Images)
4. Bingley Hall, Birmingham, 1984
Gutted by fire during the Midlands Caravan, Camping and Leisure Exhibition